Manistee

Manistee sits where the Manistee River meets Lake Michigan, and few small towns on the lakeshore have a downtown like it. River Street is lined with restored Victorian-era buildings, local shops and restaurants, and the Riverwalk follows the water from downtown all the way to the Lake Michigan channel and the pierhead lighthouse. The historic Ramsdell Theatre still hosts shows, and First Street and Fifth Avenue beaches put Lake Michigan sunsets a few minutes from most neighborhoods.

Homes here range from century-old Victorians near downtown to lakefront and Manistee Lake properties, cottages, and rural acreage bordering the Manistee National Forest. Buyers come for year-round living, second homes and retirement, and anglers know the Big Manistee River for its salmon and steelhead runs. In winter the area turns into an outdoor playground, with cross-country and downhill skiing, snowshoeing and fat-tire biking drawing visitors from across the Midwest.

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